demur

demur

1. vastustus, vastustaminen

2. tauko

Synonyymisanakirja

demur

vastaväite, väite, protestoida, vastustaa, esittää vastalause, vastata, tehdä väite.

Rimmaavat sanat

demur rimmaa näiden kanssa:

romadur, happy hour, glamour, improbatur, approbatur, cum laude approbatur, eximia cum laude approbatur, magna cum laude approbatur, lubenter approbatur, laudatur...

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Englannin sanakirja

demur englanniksi

1. puhekieltä To linger; to stay; to tarry

2. Nicols

Yet durst not demur nor abide upon the camp.

3. puhekieltä To delay; to pause; to suspend proceedings or judgment in view of a doubt or difficulty; to hesitate; to put off the determination or conclusion of an affair.

4. Hayward

Upon this rub, the English embassadors thought fit to demur.

5. puhekieltä To scruple or object; to take exception; to oppose; to balk

I demur to that statement.

The personnel demurred at the managements new scheme.''

6. puhekieltä To interpose a demurrer.

7. puhekieltä To suspend judgment concerning; to doubt of or hesitate about

8. w:John Milton|John Milton

The latter I demur, for in their looks / Much reason, and in their actions, oft appears.

9. puhekieltä To cause delay to; to put off

10. Quarles

He demands a fee, / And then demurs me with a vain delay.

11. Stop; pause; hesitation as to proceeding; suspense of decision or action; scruple.

12. w:Alexander Pope|Alexander Pope

All my demurs but double his attacks; At last he whispers, “Do; and we go snacks.”

13. 2004, (w), The Earth, Folio Society 2011, p. 132:

Most geologists today would accept such evidence without demur, but it was still ‘fringe’ science when du Toit was publishing.

14. (inflection of)

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